Program Leaders with Hearts for Spirituality

Simone Campbell, SSS

You’ve seen her on The Colbert Report, 60 Minutes, and Moyers & Co. Now come and meet the Sister who founded Nuns on the Bus! Sister Simone Campbell SSS, is an attorney and the Executive Director of NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby in Washington DC. She is also the leader of “Nuns on the Bus” which campaigns for economic justice and immigration reform.

Before coming to NETWORK, Simone was the Executive Director of JERICHO, the California inter-faith public policy organization that works to protect the interests of the poor and disenfranchised through education, coalition building and direct advocacy.

S. Simone Campbell has also served as the general director of her international religious community, the Sisters of Social Service (Roman Catholic Sisters). She was responsible for the leadership of her Sisters in the United States, Mexico, Taiwan and the Philippines. In this capacity she negotiated with government and religious leaders in each of these countries in order to further the goals of her community.

Simone has additional international experience. In December 2002 she was one of eleven religious leaders on a peace delegation to Iraq. In 1996 Simone was appointed to represent the Catholic Sisters of the United States on an international fact finding delegation to the conflict area of Chiapas, Mexico. In 1998 she served as a delegate to a binational human rights meeting in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Simone has also facilitated several international meetings that have engaged both culture and language diversity. This international perspective informed her work within her community as well as her national work within the United States.